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- Also Known As:
- Year:
- 1976
- Countries:
- Predominant Genre:
- Romance
- Director:
- Outstanding Performances:
- None
- Premiss:
- A man and one of his servants begin a torrid affair; resulting in a sexual obsession so strong that they forsake all else.
- Themes:
- Alienation | Destiny | Emotional repression | Identity | Loneliness | Narcissism | Pornography |
Self-expression | Sexual Repression | Snobbery | Solipsism | Totalitarianism - Similar (in Plot, Theme or Style) to:
- Review Format:
- Cinema
[Ai no Korîda]
Summary: Obsessing about sexual obsession.
Clever movie about sexual obsession and erotic jealousy that manages to avoid being an obsessive and self-indulgent exercise in itself.
The claustrophobia of obsessive relationships is well presented, as is the fact that the couple here are trying to escape difficult social circumstances rather more than they are actually in love with one another.
The more sex the central characters engage in, the more sex they need to engage in, in order to recreate the initial hedonistic pleasure. They become addicted to each other and can no longer be apart; inevitably leading to sadomasochism and a literal, as well as an emotional, death.
While love often causes sex, sex never causes love.
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